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snch62764
snch62764 Posts: 1
edited November 9 in Health and Weight Loss
Is coffee considered part you water consumption

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  • 2snakeswoman
    2snakeswoman Posts: 655 Member
    I do, kind of. I have a 12-oz mug of coffee in the morning, and I count it as 1 cup of water.
  • SexyKatherine73
    SexyKatherine73 Posts: 221 Member
    i count tea and coffee as water
  • tigersword
    tigersword Posts: 8,059 Member
    snch62764 wrote: »
    Is coffee considered part you water consumption

    Yes. Any fluid you drink counts. In fact, the recommendation is for about 2.5 liters of "liquid" per day. A third of that comes from food, but the rest is whatever you want. "Liquid" became "water" thanks to advertising by bottled water companies.
  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    Everything I drink (water, coffee, tea and beer?) and eat(veggies and fruit) I consider fluid. I go by pee color. Sorry TMI
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    queenliz99 wrote: »
    Everything I drink (water, coffee, tea and beer?) and eat(veggies and fruit) I consider fluid. I go by pee color. Sorry TMI

    Me too Liz. I got rid of the blu loo so I could see the colour of my pee better. Oh lordy, the awesome things we talk about! ! :o:p

  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    christinev297 wrote: »
    queenliz99 wrote: »
    Everything I drink (water, coffee, tea and beer?) and eat(veggies and fruit) I consider fluid. I go by pee color. Sorry TMI

    Me too Liz. I got rid of the blu loo so I could see the colour of my pee better. Oh lordy, the awesome things we talk about! ! :o:p

    No kiddin' :#
  • SexyKatherine73
    SexyKatherine73 Posts: 221 Member
    agrees is pee colour though
  • Luke_I_am_your_spotter
    Luke_I_am_your_spotter Posts: 4,179 Member
    no
  • jpaulie
    jpaulie Posts: 917 Member
    i used to think not because I always though caffeine dehydrates you. However, the amount of caffeine in a coffee or tea is minute compared to the amount of water. I still don't count it but that way I also drink lots of extra water.
    Alcohol is a diuretic and should not be counted as water. that why there are hangovers in morning. Dehydration.
  • jpaulie
    jpaulie Posts: 917 Member
    also ask yourself one question. If you didn't count it and you drank the extra water..who wins? you.
  • Kalikel
    Kalikel Posts: 9,603 Member
    I count water as water. If it isn't water, I don't count it as water.
  • tigersword
    tigersword Posts: 8,059 Member
    jpaulie wrote: »
    i used to think not because I always though caffeine dehydrates you. However, the amount of caffeine in a coffee or tea is minute compared to the amount of water. I still don't count it but that way I also drink lots of extra water.
    Alcohol is a diuretic and should not be counted as water. that why there are hangovers in morning. Dehydration.

    Technically, water is a diuretic. Incidentally, only hard liquors shouldn't be counted, beer is certainly hydrating, in the Middle Ages up to the Victorian era, beer was a major source of hydration, as the alcohol killed microbes and made beer safer to drink than water, until sanitation came along to finally clean things up.
  • jpaulie
    jpaulie Posts: 917 Member
    tigersword wrote: »
    jpaulie wrote: »
    i used to think not because I always though caffeine dehydrates you. However, the amount of caffeine in a coffee or tea is minute compared to the amount of water. I still don't count it but that way I also drink lots of extra water.
    Alcohol is a diuretic and should not be counted as water. that why there are hangovers in morning. Dehydration.

    Technically, water is a diuretic. Incidentally, only hard liquors shouldn't be counted, beer is certainly hydrating, in the Middle Ages up to the Victorian era, beer was a major source of hydration, as the alcohol killed microbes and made beer safer to drink than water, until sanitation came along to finally clean things up.

    yes, anything that makes you urinate is a diuretic true, however alcohol increases the rate at which you urinate. So example you drink 200mls of beer you urinate about 300ml's of water, there fore depleting your water level from what I have been taught by my nutritionist
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    Coffee is mostly water.
  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    edited January 2015
    jpaulie wrote: »
    tigersword wrote: »
    jpaulie wrote: »
    i used to think not because I always though caffeine dehydrates you. However, the amount of caffeine in a coffee or tea is minute compared to the amount of water. I still don't count it but that way I also drink lots of extra water.
    Alcohol is a diuretic and should not be counted as water. that why there are hangovers in morning. Dehydration.

    Technically, water is a diuretic. Incidentally, only hard liquors shouldn't be counted, beer is certainly hydrating, in the Middle Ages up to the Victorian era, beer was a major source of hydration, as the alcohol killed microbes and made beer safer to drink than water, until sanitation came along to finally clean things up.

    yes, anything that makes you urinate is a diuretic true, however alcohol increases the rate at which you urinate. So example you drink 200mls of beer you urinate about 300ml's of water, there fore depleting your water level from what I have been taught by my nutritionist

    But not all nutritionists are correct
  • jpaulie
    jpaulie Posts: 917 Member
    queenliz99 wrote: »
    jpaulie wrote: »
    tigersword wrote: »
    jpaulie wrote: »
    i used to think not because I always though caffeine dehydrates you. However, the amount of caffeine in a coffee or tea is minute compared to the amount of water. I still don't count it but that way I also drink lots of extra water.
    Alcohol is a diuretic and should not be counted as water. that why there are hangovers in morning. Dehydration.

    Technically, water is a diuretic. Incidentally, only hard liquors shouldn't be counted, beer is certainly hydrating, in the Middle Ages up to the Victorian era, beer was a major source of hydration, as the alcohol killed microbes and made beer safer to drink than water, until sanitation came along to finally clean things up.

    yes, anything that makes you urinate is a diuretic true, however alcohol increases the rate at which you urinate. So example you drink 200mls of beer you urinate about 300ml's of water, there fore depleting your water level from what I have been taught by my nutritionist

    But not all nutritionists are correct

    easy answer
  • tigersword
    tigersword Posts: 8,059 Member
    jpaulie wrote: »
    tigersword wrote: »
    jpaulie wrote: »
    i used to think not because I always though caffeine dehydrates you. However, the amount of caffeine in a coffee or tea is minute compared to the amount of water. I still don't count it but that way I also drink lots of extra water.
    Alcohol is a diuretic and should not be counted as water. that why there are hangovers in morning. Dehydration.

    Technically, water is a diuretic. Incidentally, only hard liquors shouldn't be counted, beer is certainly hydrating, in the Middle Ages up to the Victorian era, beer was a major source of hydration, as the alcohol killed microbes and made beer safer to drink than water, until sanitation came along to finally clean things up.

    yes, anything that makes you urinate is a diuretic true, however alcohol increases the rate at which you urinate. So example you drink 200mls of beer you urinate about 300ml's of water, there fore depleting your water level from what I have been taught by my nutritionist

    No, that math is way off. There isn't anyway near enough alcohol in beer for that to happen. The human race would've basically died out a few hundred years ago if it were true.
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  • jessicabeacom
    jessicabeacom Posts: 18 Member
    I guess Americano, instant coffee etc yes but cappuccino, latté no as they are made with milk
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